New video card equals oops...

joesomebody · 10-11-2005, 01:09 PM

Ok... so I went to one of my favorite shopping sites, www.woot.com, and bought a pair of the SLI video cards they are whoring today...

Well... after I'd bought them I realized that SLI are PCI-E slot not just regular old PCI... so that made me realize I'd need a new motherboard...

So I went shopping and realized no motherboard I could find that had PCI-E slots would support my Intel Pentium 4 2.4G 478... it had to be the newer LGA775's...

So here is where I realized I'd need a new MOBO and a new CPU... OH and then I realized all the newer MOBO's only take DDR2 memory, so I figured out that I had to buy new memory too...

So I did some shopping around and came up with this set up...

Motherboard: ABIT NI8-SLI
CPU: Intel Celeron D 3.2 Ghz
Memory: Kingston 1GB DDR2 533
Video Card: 2 of the BFG GeForce 6600 128MB PCI-Express SLI Video Cards

Could one of you intelligent Chiefsplanet members take a look at this setup and advise... I still have time to cancel everything but the video cards...

The video cards are what made me upgrade anyway...

10-11-2005, 01:09 PM	Topic Starter
joesomebody Waiting to be voted off Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Baltimore, MD Casino cash: $9994900	New video card equals oops... Ok... so I went to one of my favorite shopping sites, www.woot.com, and bought a pair of the SLI video cards they are whoring today... Well... after I'd bought them I realized that SLI are PCI-E slot not just regular old PCI... so that made me realize I'd need a new motherboard... So I went shopping and realized no motherboard I could find that had PCI-E slots would support my Intel Pentium 4 2.4G 478... it had to be the newer LGA775's... So here is where I realized I'd need a new MOBO and a new CPU... OH and then I realized all the newer MOBO's only take DDR2 memory, so I figured out that I had to buy new memory too... So I did some shopping around and came up with this set up... Motherboard: ABIT NI8-SLI CPU: Intel Celeron D 3.2 Ghz Memory: Kingston 1GB DDR2 533 Video Card: 2 of the BFG GeForce 6600 128MB PCI-Express SLI Video Cards Could one of you intelligent Chiefsplanet members take a look at this setup and advise... I still have time to cancel everything but the video cards... The video cards are what made me upgrade anyway...
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